Participating organizations included faith-based social justice groups PICO California and the San Diego Organizing Project. Bishop Robert McElroy,the Catholic diocese of San Diego, as well as Father Neal Jose Wilkinson and Gloria Morales, both with the San Diego Organizing Project.

“What we’ve been seeing with the Trump administration’s family separation policies — and Jeff Sessions’ use of the Bible to defend them — is truly horrific,” Wilkinson said. “Children do not belong in detention centers. They belong with their families, in our communities and in healthy, safe environments where they are able to thrive.”

After sharing immigrant-related stories through the day, protesters will hold a candlelight vigil into the night.

The march comes on the heels of U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris’ visit on Friday to the detention center, which she described as a “typical prison setting.”

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